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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's important to note that the scores are spun from 2007 because the DC-CAS was relatively new (second year I think) and the scores had dipped.

While Rhee joined DCPS in 2007, students had already taken the 2007 test.

This is spin from DCPS and OSSE. The scores across time should be judged from 2008, the first year of "Rhee-form."

In other words, reading scores have remain largely stagnant for most of DCPS and math scores went up. However, when you think about the money, time, drama and cheating that's gone into the whole endeavor, it's pretty depressing.[/quote]

However you wish to slice it, the scores have gone up.  We all would have liked to have seen greater gains, but the movement is upward.  I honestly don't understand why some people on this board are so intent on finding the negative.  That too is spin.

Signed,
A DC Parent of three whose kids are getting a good education and who hopes that the upward trajectory continues.

PS-  What happened to all the people who don't care about the testing and the numbers? [/quote]

If you take a look at the demographic breakdown data for reading on slide 4 (http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/DC%20CAS%202014%20-%20DCPS%20Press%20Deck.pdf)  you can see that for Male / Female scores there is almost no change from last year to this year.  (Female scores went from 53.4 to 53.8; Males stayed the same at 41.7).

We can reasonably assume that no new gender composition changes have taken place in the last year in DCPS enrollment and that gender is the same across racial and economic dimensions (Blacks aren't having more or fewer males; high-SES families have boys and girls in the same proportion as low-SES families, etc.).

This makes it easy to identify that the touted reading score movement has come from changes in the demographics of the population with more higher scoring subgroups in the tested population than were there previously rather than improved teaching and learning across all students.  The Math scores do show improvement for both male and female subgroups (much less than the 4 point increase, though) so there may be some improved math teaching/learning.  Or it might just be more adjusting of the "cut scores" for proficiency.

Either way, there is lots of spin surrounding the scores.[/quote]

This. Basically, since 2007, none of of "output" has changed, only the inputs (an uptick in higher ses kids/decrease in lower ses kids).  Depressing.[/quote]

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